Root-knot nematodes, recently confirmed in southern Indiana, can cause extensive damage to soybeans, corn and watermelon, three of the main cash crops in that area of the Midwest. Purdue plant pathologist Andreas Westphal and his research team have...

Agriculture - Cooperative Extension Service. Chicago, Ill.- The National 4-H club boy and girl champions were chosen today during the 16th annual congress of the farm youth organization at the International Livestock show. Selected because of their...

Purdue Colleges and Departments. Andrew DeWoody studies eagles by using DNA in their feathers to track their movements and habits. This technique allows DeWoody to study larger populations and prevents injuries to birds because they aren't captured.

Purdue Colleges and Departments. Babak Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, demonstrates a new "stretchable" electrode created in research with Stanford University to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons...

Purdue engineer Babak Ziaie shows the prototype wireless device he developed with doctoral student Chulwoo Son at the university's Birck Nanotechnology Center. The device fits inside a hypodermic needle to be injected into tumors to tell doctors...